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tanus. She was first'married' to P..Clodius, by Veil. Pat. ii. 74; Cic. Phil. ii. 5, 31, iii. 6, ad
whom she had a daughter, Claudia, afterwards the Att. xiv. 12; Val. Max. ix. 1. ~ 8; Niebuhr,
wife of Caesar Octavianus. When Clodius was Lectureson Rom. Hist. vol. ii. p. 121, &c.) [L. S.]
murdered, and his body was carried to Rome, and FULVIA PLAUTILLA. [PLAUTILLA.]
there exposed in the atrium of his house, Fulvia, FU'LVIA. GENS (of which the older term was
with great lamentations, showed her husband's Foulvia), plebeian, but one of the most illustrious
wounds to the multitude that came to see the Roman gentes. According to Cicero (pro Plane.
body; and she thus inflamed their desire of taking 8, comp. Phil. iii. 6) and Pliny (H. N. vii. 44),
vengeance on the murderer. She afterwards this gens had come to Rome from Tusculum,
married C. Scribonius Curio; and after his fall in although some members must have remained in.Africa, in B. C. 49, she lived for some years as a their native place, since Fulvii occur at Tusculum
widow, until about B. C. 44, she married M. An- as late as the time of Cicero. The gens Fulvia was
tony, by whom she became the mother of two believed to have received its sacra from Hercules
sons. Up to the time of her marrying Antony, after he had accomplished his twelve labours. The
she had been a woman of most dissolute conduct, cognomens which occur in this gens in the time of
but henceforth she clung to Antony with the most the republic are BAMBALIO, CENTUMALUS, CURpassionate attachment, and her only ambition was vvus (omitted under CURVus, but given under
to see her husband occupy the first place in the FULVIUS), FLACCUS, GILLO, NACCA, NOBILIOR,
republic, at whatever cost that position might be PAETINUS, and VERATIUS, or NERATIUS. The
purchased. When Antony was declared a public annexed coin, belonging to this gens, bears on the
enemy, she addressed the most humble entreaties obverse a head of Pallas, with ROMA, and on the
to the senate, praying that they might alter their reverse Victory in a biga, with CN. FOUL. M. CAL.
resolution. Her brutal conduct during the fearful Q. MET., that is, Cn. Fulvius, M. Calidius, Q. Meproscriptions of B. C. 43 is well known; she gazed tellus. [L. S.]
with delight upon the heads of Cicero and Rufus,
the victims of her husband. In those same days
of terror a number of wealthy Roman ladies were
ordered to deliver up their treasures to the tri-.
umvirs, whereupon they called upon the female L
relatives of the triumvirs, and petitioned them to
interfere with the triumvirs, and endeavour to
mitigate the order. When the ladies came to the
house of Fulvia, they were treated most haughtily FULVIA'NUS, L. MA'NLIUS ACIDI'NUS
and ignominiously. In B. c. 40, while Antony was [AcmIsNUs, No. 2.]
revelling with Cleopatra in all the luxuries of the FU'LVIUS. 1. L. FULVIUS CuvaIs, was conEast, and Octavianus was rewarding his soldiers sul in B. C. 322, with Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus.
with lands in Italy, Fulvia, stimulated partly by He is the first Fulvius that we meet with in the hisjealousy and the desire of drawing Antony back to tory of Rome, and is said to have been consul at TusItaly, and partly by her hostility towards Octavi- culumin the year in which that town revolted against
anus, resolved upon raising a commotion in Italy. Rome; and on going over to the Romans to have
She induced L. Antonius, her husband's brother, to been invested there with the same office, and to
come forwards as the protector of those who were have triumphed over his own countrymen, He
oppressed and reduced to poverty by the colonies and his colleague were further said, in some annals,
of Octavianus. He was soon joined by others, to have conquered the Samnites, and to have
who were more sincere than himself. He took his triumphed over them. In B. C. 313 he was mapost* at Praeneste whither he was followed by gister equitum to the dictator, L. Aemilius, whom
-Fulvia, who pretended that the lives of her children he accompanied to besiege Saticula. (Plin. H. N.
were threatened by Lepidus. She afterwards fol- vii. 44; Liv. viii. 38, ix. 21.)
lowed L. Antonius to Perusia, and endeavoured to 2. M. FuLvIUS CURIus PAETINUS, consul in B.C.
rouse the inhabitants of the north of Italy to assist 305, in the place of T. Minucius, who had fallen
him, while he was'besieged at Perusia by Octavi- in the war against the Sainnites. According to
anus. When Perusia fell into the hands of Octa- some annalists, M. Fulvius took the town of Bovianus, by the treachery of L. Antonius, Fulvia vianum, and celebrated a triumph over the Samwas permitted to escape, and went to Brundusium, nites. (Liv. ix. 44.)
where she embarked for Greece. Her husband, 3. C. FULVUS CuRvUs, one of the plebeian
-who had in the meantime been informed of the aediles in B. C. 298. (Liv. x. 23.)
war of Perusia and its result, was on his way to 4. A. FULVIUS, the son of a Roman, and an
Italy. He-met Fulvia at Athens, and censured accomplice of the Catilinarian conspiracy; but
her severely for having caused the disturbance. It when he was on his way to Catiline, his father,
is said that, from grief at his rough treatment, she who was informed of his son's design, overtook
was taken ill, and in this state he left her at him, and ordered him to be put to death. (Sall.
Sicyon while he went to Brundusium. Her feel- Cat. 39; Dion Cass. xxxvii. 36; Val. Max. v. 8.
ings were so deeply wounded by her husband's con- ~ 5.) [L. S.]
duct, that she took no care of herself, and soon after FU'LVIUS, praefectus urbi in A. D. 222, was
died at Sicyon, B. C. 40. The news of her death torn to pieces, along with Aurelius Eubulus [Eucame very opportunely for the triumvirs, who now BULUS], by the soldiers and people, in the masformed a reconciliation, which was cemented by sacre which followed the death of Elagabalus, and
Antony marrying the noble-minded Octavia. was succeeded in office by the notorious Eutychi(Plut. A1nton. 9, &c.; Appian, B. C. iii. 51, iv. 29, anus Comazon. He is perhaps the same person
32, v. 14, 19, 21, 33, 43, 50, 52, 55, 59, 62; with the consular, Fulvius Diogenianus [DIOGENIDion. Cass. xlvi. 56, xlvii. 8, &c.; xlviii. 3-28; ANUS], whose rash exclamation, onr hearing the